In a review of Will Rogers Follies published in the Spectator, O’Rourke wrote about “actresses whose only qualifications seem to be their phenomenally large breasts and tight buttocks.”

By NTK Staff | 10.02.2018 @1:00pm

Texas Democrat Beto O’Rourke is in hot water Tuesday for a review he wrote of a Broadway musical for a publication in 1991.

O’Rourke penned the piece for the Spectator under his given name, Robert, and criticized the Tony Award-winning musical as “one of the most glaring examples of the sickening excesses and moral degradations of our culture.”

Specifically, he took aim at the women in the cast, and claimed their only talents were their physical appearances:

“Basically, the show documents the life of Will Rogers, the ‘lassoing fool,’ who rose from being an insignificant side show attraction to one of the more prominent political pundits and cultural statesmen in our history. Yet it is produced and directed in such a showy, glitzy, and ultimately, tacky manner, that one cannot help feeling disgusted throughout the show. Keith Carradine in the lead role is surrounded by perma-smile actresses whose only qualifications seem to be their phenomenally large breasts and tight buttocks.”

“I am ashamed of what I wrote and I apologize. There is no excuse for making disrespectful and demeaning comments about women,” he said.

O’Rourke is challenging Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) in the Lone Star State’s Senate race. He’s been on defense lately, forced to address a police report that states he tried to flee the scene of his DWI arrest in 1998.